Ok, here's the most important thing to remember on Deviantart.
IT ISN'T A POPULARITY CONTEST!!!!!!!!1
This means:
-Don't ask people to read/fav/comment/look at your work.
-Don't cheat or steal to get pageviews.
-Don't pretend your going to leave DA to make people feel bad and fav/comment on your work.
-Don't join clubs you have NO INTEREST in whatsover in order to increase your # of pageviews.
-Don't misuse the Thumbshare forum.... enough said!
-Don't spam people's pages so people will go to your page.
-Don't fav every image in seight in order to increase the number of people to go to your page.

And etc... to that!
So please realize this fact and just stop it. Make DA a better place...